Colorado gets credit for leading the way in many areas of environmental protection. But it consistently proves a failure in ...

Humans have been depleting the ozone layer with chemical products. The unintentional experiment started in the late 1920s, when Thomas Midgley and other industrial chemists began to produce ...

Ozone’s negative effect on lung function and other health outcomes is well documented, but a new study examined the impact of ...

This is a big deal because of the amount of the dodgy chemical being used and its potential to reverse the healing that's starting to take place in the ozone layer. China's polyurethane foam makes ...

When chlorine is separated from the CFCs and reacts with ozone, it rips apart the ozone molecule, leaving the layer thinner than before. In 1974, two scientists from the University of California ...

or from the accidental production of CFC-11 as a by-product of other chemical manufacture. Older fridges are more likely to contain compounds that will damage the ozone layer In 2013, plumes of ...

But when Haagy created synthetic smog in the lab, he unknowingly introduced another piece to the puzzle when oxidizing the VOCs: ozone. Oxidation is the process of combining a molecule with oxygen, ...

The cold winter months may bring temporary relief from Colorado’s long-running ozone pollution problem, but it’s crunch time ...

New research is highlighting the use of ozone therapy and its potential to help treat acute lung injuries caused by sepsis.